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WESTERN MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

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EDITED BY

WILLIAM D. GALLAGHER AND OTWAY CURRY.

"To gather from still living witnesses, and preserve for the future annalist, the important records
of the teeming and romantic PAST: to seize while yet warm and glowing, and inscribe upon the page
which shall be sought hereafter, the bright visions of song, and the fair images of story, which gild
the gloom and lighten the sorrows of the ever-fleeting PRESENT: to search all history with a steady
eye, sound all philosophy with a careful hand, question all experience with a fearless tongue, and
thence draw lessons to fit us for, and light to guide us through, the shadowed but unknown FUTURE."

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NOTICE.

THE first number of the HESPERIAN is herewith presented-to our subscribers for their perusal, to the public for their inspection. We will here but remark, that we have endeavored to make it creditable to ourselves, and worthy of the West; and we trust it may be found, what we desire that it shall always be, deserving of the respectful consideration of the friends of education, morality, general intelligence, and polite literature. Our plan, it will be perceived, differs essentially from that of the generality of monthly magazines. By having in the ork a department for selections, we can diversify its contents with a fund and variety of choice matter, which under other arrangements it would be impossible to compass: and its ample size will admit of this without at all excluding such original articles as are expected and usually found in periodicals of the kind. we have promised, so shall we proceed-bringing into exercise for our original department the ablest pens of the Valley, and seeking our selections in the best of the Foreign and American publications, periodical and otherwise.

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We desire that correspondents shall always accompany their articles with their names. We do not make this a positive requisition; but we have adopted the rule of holding every writer at once accountable to the public for the doctrines he may inculcate, or the sentiments he may express, and of giving him at once the credit due for the labors of his intellect and the productions of his pen, and shall depart from it very reluctantly in any case. We deem this the surest way of securing good thoughts, correct opinions, and elegant writings, and also of giving character and usefulness to our periodical; and we wish to adhere to it as rigidly as possible. There is no man, with mind enough to be of service as a writer, but will work with more care and deliberation, when he knows that "his good name " is to be directly affected by what he does."

To gather from still living witnesses, and preserve for the future annalist, the important records of the teeming and romantic PAST: to seize while yet warm and glowing, and inscribe upon the page which shall be sought hereafter, the bright visions of song, and the fair images of story, which gild the gloom and lighten the sorrows of the ever-fleeting PRESENT: to search all history with steady eye, sound all philosophy with a careful hand, question all experience with a fearless tongue, and thence draw lessons to fit us for, and light to guide us through, the shadowed but unknown FUTURE.-This is the work, three-fold in itself and important in its consequences, of him who occupies the station which we now assume; and in taking upon ourselves the duties of this office, we pledge for their faithful performance, whatever talents belong to us, a pride that is somewhat known, and an industry which has been tried.

The work is to be an expensive one, and will require a large circulation and a patronage by no means niggard to sustain it. We therefore solicit from the wes

tern community a liberal subscription, and from subscribers punctual payment.

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